This is a great resource for the community, thanks for all of your work!

I would suggest (maybe in a future release?) moving to a USB thumb drive for distribution. I still have a DVD drive but they are becoming less common on newer machines (in particular macs).

Cheers,
Steve

RE: New Version of the PPC Calculator Archive DVD Available - Jake Schwartz - 10-13-201705:16 PM

Yeah, I have to do some more thinking about it. That may ultimately be the answer anyway, when the 8.5 GB capacity is exceeded.

Jake

RE: New Version of the PPC Calculator Archive DVD Available - Terje Vallestad - 10-13-201707:18 PM

(10-13-2017 05:16 PM)Jake Schwartz Wrote: Yeah, I have to do some more thinking about it. That may ultimately be the answer anyway, when the 8.5 GB capacity is exceeded.

Jake

Hi Jake,

Given the speed of my (and many others) internet connection I would also be very pleased to pay the fee and then be given some sort of access code to directly download the DVD contents, or more likely the updates since I bought the set a few years ago.
Maybe also something to think about.

Cheers, Terje

RE: New Version of the PPC Calculator Archive DVD Available - Jake Schwartz - 10-14-201706:24 PM

In my simplistic view, it would be too complicated to simply post updates, since this latest change added hundreds of files and many directories, as well as updating dozens of other files. The work on this update started last April and involved hand-scanning over 4,000 pages. I haven't ever considered a mechanism for downloading the entirety either....I guess I'm a hopeless old timer :-)

RE: New Version of the PPC Calculator Archive DVD Available - pier4r - 10-14-201707:01 PM

I throw an idea (that is valid also for the museum thumbdrive and whatever other collection that has versions released every X years and not frequently).

P2P distribution, with torrent, of an encrypted archive. Yes I know someone can play around and try to decode it, but it would cost so much electricity (if the keys are long enough) to be uneconomical and pretty silly.